Stonewall
Expelliarmus!
Harry Potter is cancelled, Sainsbury’s cancel their shoppers, Taxpayers fund Stonewall, and packing the (UK) Supreme Court
Fair Cop?
How Stonewall turned the police into political activists
Lock her up
And, simultaneously, let him go
Germany is acknowledging the unspeakable
A pattern of criminality is shattering taboos
Prom-lematic
Landlords, Lammy, “Land of Hope and Glory” and other questionable phenomena
The West is weak
The Russian-American prisoner exchange sends a catastrophic message of Western frailty
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
In defence of hereditary peers
We should preserve Britain’s magical eccentricity
Toffs, trials and tradecraft
The best police procedurals unpeel the place where the drama unfolds
Living in the 80s
Did popular culture peak four decades ago?
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
Lebanonisation in the UK
Sectarianism, crackdowns and ethnic tension are becoming the new normal in the UK
